2013 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 58 - Public Utilities, Services and Carriers
CHAPTER 17 - THE GENERAL RAILROAD LAW
SECTION 58-17-750. Purchase or guarantee of bonds and stock of other companies; purchase, use or lease of other roads.

Except as prohibited in Section 58-17-770 and in sections 7 and 20 of article 9 of the Constitution of 1895, any railroad company created by and existing under the laws of this State may from time to time, purchase and hold the stocks or bonds of any other railroad company chartered by or of which the road is authorized to extend into this State. And except as prohibited in Section 58-17-770 and in sections 7 and 20 of article 9 of the Constitution of 1895, any railroad company may enter into a contract for the purchase, use or lease of any other railroad, upon such terms as may be agreed upon with the company owning it and may run, use and operate such road in accordance with such contract or lease; provided, the roads of the companies so contracting or leasing shall be directly, or by means of intervening railroads, connected with each other. Any railroad corporation organized under the laws of this State may guarantee the bonds, stocks or dividends of any other railroad corporation, whenever the roads of such corporations shall connect with each other or shall form a continuous line or railroad directly or by means of any connecting railroad or by steamboat or steamship line, such guaranty to be upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the stockholders of the corporations making it.

But all such agreements and all parts of them shall, at all times, be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by the General Assembly.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 58-934; 1952 Code Section 58-934; 1942 Code Section 8292-3; 1932 Code Section 8240; Civ. C. '22 Section 4804; Civ. C. '12 Section 3135; Civ. C. '02 Section 2060; G. S. 1434; R. S. 1624; 1881 (17) 798.